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Swiss
March 21st, 2006, 11:19 AM
Can You/How Do You Change the GRUB Bootloader skin?
Brunellus
March 21st, 2006, 11:23 AM
uh, GRUB loads before X, and so thus is not really "skinnable"
Swiss
March 21st, 2006, 11:26 AM
Look here: http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Getting_Started#head-76c76195679b0098d0d34e2d28e2e8c55a9e087f

And elseware on this forum I have heard mention of "skinning GRUB"
Bandit
March 21st, 2006, 11:30 AM
uh, GRUB loads before X, and so thus is not really "skinnable"
Actualy SuSE and Mandrake have been doing that for the past 6 years..
cyberb0b
March 21st, 2006, 11:33 AM
Do you mean adding a splash image? See this post:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=30341
Swiss
March 21st, 2006, 11:35 AM
Yep, Thanks! Thats exactly what I was looking for! :D \\:D/
Jucato
March 21st, 2006, 11:39 AM
I wonder when we'll have those GRUB GUI splash screens, like some of the distros out there. Not really a necessity. Just makes things look nicer. :D
Brunellus
March 21st, 2006, 11:41 AM
I wonder when we'll have those GRUB GUI splash screens, like some of the distros out there. Not really a necessity. Just makes things look nicer. :D
Ick.

Now having looked at the bootsplash pages, I think I might go about disabling it for dapper. ever since ubuntu went to bootsplash, my textmode consoles are all messed up.
localzuk
March 21st, 2006, 11:48 AM
Take a look at http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/

There is a wealth of info there :)
Jucato
March 21st, 2006, 12:44 PM
Hmm.. let me get my terms correct (please correct me if I'm wrong)

GRUB splash - splash image seen in the GRUB bootloader
Bootsplash - the part where you see all those initializing/loading lines
USplash/KSplash - splash screen when logging into GDM/KDM

So if I'm not mistaken, in Ubuntu, GRUB splash is text, Bootsplash is graphic, and of course USplash is graphic.

What I was wondering about was a graphical GRUB splash like SUSE (http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=464&slide=1).
jmn2k1
March 26th, 2006, 02:28 AM
In gnome-look (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=29985) theres is grubs splash and the instructions to install...
infoseeker
March 26th, 2006, 05:20 AM
Just be careful which splash image file you use. I downloaded a number of splash images and a small number of them caused my Ubuntu to hang on bootup...even before grub loads. I had to sift though them one at a time and dumped those that caused a problem. Right now I am using 'daren.xpm.gz' which works fine.
I had to edit the 'menu'lst' file with a bootable live cd (KNOPPIX) each time the hangs/lockups occured, but thats what Linux is all about, isn't it :D